topic FC Attachment Downloads and save in ArcGIS Pro Questions

FC Attachment Downloads and save

ModernElectric — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 19:43:25 GMT

Good Afternoon:

I have a large number of Hosted Feature Layers on ArcGIS Online that are apart of Field Maps, Survey123 and Workforce. I have them all added to a project in ArcGIS Pro for analysis and backup workflows.

Curious, is there a way to do a mass download of attachments per Hosted Feature Class and save to a network folder? Trying to do it feature-by-feature is very inefficient and time consuming.

Many different kinds of field images from our crews that I want to back-up and use for our master map (locate marks, tree trimming, new construction, etc).

Appreciate the guidance.

Re: FC Attachment Downloads and save

RyanUthoff — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:05:36 GMT

This is a workflow to download all the photos as an attachment table as part of an FGDB. https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/how-to-download-and-extract-a-hosted-feature-layer-with-000012232

Otherwise, if you want to download the actual attachments, here are some workflows that should accomplish that. The first link I posted is going to be the easiest as long as you're comfortable with a little bit of Python.

https://support.esri.com/en-us/knowledge-base/how-to-batch-export-attachments-from-a-feature-class-in-000017450

https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-pro/data-management/create-your-own-geoprocessing-tool-to-download-attachments/

https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-online-documents/downloading-feature-layer-attachments-via-the/ta-p/916538

Edit: I'm not 100% sure if any of those Python tools are compatible with reading AGOL hosted feature layers directly. You might need to use the first method I mentioned to download the FGDB, then use the Python script to extract the photos from the FGDB attachment table.

Re: FC Attachment Downloads and save

AnninaRupe1 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 20:02:14 GMT

This worked for me:
https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-survey123-blog/survey123-tricks-of-the-trade-download-survey-data/ba-p/1141835